#Anonymous squeals on Wikileaks & Julian Assange

[kpete]

Yesterday, one of several quasi-official Twitter accounts of Anonymous, the international hacktivist group (@YourAnonCentral — not a verified account, for obvious reasons), responded to a tweet from a follower who had a conspiracy theory regarding supposed Russian/Putin blackmail of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks (who is currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London).

And while Anonymous threw a gentle bucket of cold water on the CT, more interesting by far was the tweetstorm that followed, which included some not-well-known information about WikiLeaks, some people who worked there early, and the history of Assange himself.

Snippets:

Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
People thought @Wikileaks wanted to support the weak against the powerful. That was #Anonymous, not Julian Assange. (19) @Khanoisseur
7:39 AM - 12 Jan 2017
78 78 Retweets 128 128 likes
12 Jan
Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
From earliest interviews, Assange is a racist, sexist, right wing libertarian who loved Rand Paul and the US constitution. (20) @Khanoisseur
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Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
His Wikileaks Party met personally with Assad in 2013, they supported AU's white nationalist fascist party ahead of Greens (21) @Khanoisseur
7:44 AM - 12 Jan 2017
42 42 Retweets 47 47 likes
12 Jan
Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
Assange has always been more interested in posing with celebrities than talking to anyone working or anyone in need. (22) @Khanoisseur
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Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
None of the people who have ever been involved in @Wikileaks have changed. (23) @Khanoisseur
7:47 AM - 12 Jan 2017
15 15 Retweets 24 24 likes
12 Jan
Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
You are just left with the fascist (Assange), all the people whose work he rode off of are still around but not there. (24) @Khanoisseur
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Anonymous @YourAnonCentral
Assange didn't change in 2010. He was never one of the 'good guys'. Those who made @Wikileaks worth anything simply left. (25) @Khanoisseur
7:53 AM - 12 Jan 2017

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[Denzil_DC]

1. This chimes with what I observed myself about its evolution.

At first, Wikileaks' public face was a very plain website carrying whistleblower documents that may have meant something to somebody, but had pretty limited appeal to the merely curious.

Then the major splashes started, the Manning cache etc.

I always felt that with the big leaks, it was a lot of potential power to put in a few people's hands.